In the obstetrician´s eyes

If every single image is significant, and through each one we can follow the trail of the different ideological contexts which produced them, precisely those with a scientific vocation, which are supposedly neutral, may become the most meaningful of all, because scientific knowledge is not an objective universe, and on many occasions it is used (consciously or unconsciously) to find arguments that justify and rationally legitimise a given society’s dominant prejudices. “In the obstetrician´s eyes” aims to show the fictions which have been created in scientific representations of the female body by western patriarchal societies, with the aim of questioning them and encouraging reflexion about the damaging legacies that still today continue to influence scientific thought as regards women’s bodies and psyches. The project is divided into 3 parts.

Second part: Scientific fictions. This part of the work aims to show some scientific myths that were built by western patriarchal societies through 3 different illustrations: "Women and the doctrine in the abnegation, a review of the Anatomicla Atlas of William Hunter", who is still considered one of the fathers of the Obstetrics. "The veto to the tree of knowledge, in memory of Hygeia and Panacea", and in the honor of all the women who were persecuted only because her scientific knowledge. Finally, "Original man, original woman."